23 poorest districts to be upgraded – Zuma

President Jacob Zuma has called on South Africans to back his administration’s National Development Plan as a means of reducing inequality and poverty in South Africa.

In the January 8 statement to the ANC’s 101st anniversary rally in Durban today, Zuma said that the NDP would include massive infrastructure projects, including those aimed at upgrading South Africa’s 23 poorest districts.

These projects, he said, would change the lives of about 19 million people who are presently without either water, sanitation or electricity in various rural parts of South Africa.

More than 2 000 schools and more than 800 health facilities countrywide would also benefit from the infrastructure programme, which would hasten the delivery of water to 1.4 million new households and sanitation to 2.1 million others.

Zuma told the packed ABSA stadium, which was crowded beyond capacity despite suites not being opened by their corporate owners, that the private sector needed to get involved in the roll out as well.

“We call on the private sector to view the infrastructure programme as an opportunity to partner with our government for sustainable development and job creation,’’ Zuma said.

Zuma conceded that government was unlikely to meet the Polokwane target of transferring 30% of the 82m hectares of agricultural land owned by whites in 1994 to black ownership by 2014.

As a result the “willing buyer willing seller’’ principle would be replaced by a “just and equitable’’ policy to speed up land expropriation.

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gumpy51

South Africa’s own ‘ Great Leap Forward ‘ in the making?

Informed people will know how that ended.

Unfortunately this is all a Jacob Zuma illusion. Another way of buying
votes for the ANC, but doing nothing for the long term economy.
Soon even the children will stop going to school, in the belief that
the Zuma utopia will provide all.

But don’t hold your breath people because a poni scheme is a poni scheme.
Because Zuma has never created a thing in his life before. He is nothing more
than a parasite living on others people’s charity.

Corrupt_comrade_JACOB

and some sheep will vote for these incompetent corrupt idiots again,believing this

http://twitter.com/Njongozethu R.S.J.Prestwich

What was the last one.
Ah, Yes, creating 5 million jobs! You had forgotten??? Hadn’t you?
(6 million now)
3 years from now and the N.D.P will be in the WC.

Platanna

He said it all before, lets bet the poorest municipalities will be round his Nkandla.